Dear INT-Lawyers,
The launch of the Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) took
place in Sydney on December 8. AsianLII is now available for free
access at <http://www.asianlii.org>. AsianLII has been developed by
the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), a non-profit
and free access joint facility of the Faculties of Law at the
University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and the University of New
South Wales (UNSW).
AsianLII includes at launch 101 databases from 22 of the 27 Asian
countries, from Mongolia in the north to Timor Leste in the south,
Japan in the east to Pakistan in the west. It includes about 150,000
full text cases, and over 15,000 items of legislation, plus law
reform reports, a few law journals, and other materials. All of this
content may be searched simultaneously.
Some of the larger collections are from the Philippines, India, and
(for legislation) Timor-Leste and Vietnam. AsianLII also includes 14
Hong Kong databases from HKLII, and 9 Papua-New Guinea databases from
PacLII. It is another example of cooperation between members of the
Free Access to Law Movement.
For each of the 27 countries, AsianLII allows a search over that
country's databases, plus a websearch over a Catalog of other law
sites from that country, plus a 'Law on Google' search restricted to
legal materials from that country.
This first version of AsianLII contains primarily English language
databases, plus some Indonesian databases in Bahasa (since it uses
the latin script). AustLII's Sino search engine is being developed to
search other languages and subsequent versions of AsianLII will
progressively including searchable databases in other Asian national
languages.
AsianLII has been developed with funding from the Australian Research
Council, AusAID and the Australian Attorney-General's Department. It
is also assisted by Country Supporting Institutions in a number of
Asian countries (see the site for details), and regional supporters
LAWASIA and APEC's SELI. AustLII welcomes expressions of interest
from other funding and supporting institutions, and data sources such
as Courts, legislatures, law reform bodies and law journals.
We hope that you find AsianLII valuable.
Best wishes,
Graham Greenleaf
Co-Director AustLII/AsianLII
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Graham Greenleaf
Professor of Law
Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052 Australia (UNSW CRICOS Provider No: 00098G)
Co-Director, Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
Co-Director, Cyberspace Law and Policy Centre
Asia-Pacific Editor, Privacy Laws & Business International
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Web Pages - http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~graham/
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